Question...

[AFB]

Could you live in the US for ~$7000 a year ? I ask this becuase this is what many overseas tech people make. I don't want this turning into a flame war, so I didn't post in P&N. I mean the population as a whole.

 

[Spoooon]

I live in the US on around ~$11,000 a year. You could survive on 7 I think.

 

[AFB]

If you don't mind me asking, where?

 

[Spoooon]

In East Texas, small town. I go to school also. Most of my income is borrowed money.

 

[Xionide]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy
Could you live in the US for ~$7000 a year ? I ask this becuase this is what many overseas tech people make. I don't want this turning into a flame war, so I didn't post in P&N.

A little less than comfortably

 

[AFB]

Let me guess Commerce(sp) ?

 

[Spoooon]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy
Let me guess Commerce(sp) ?

Nope. I don't really care about saying, but I like to post things about the students I teach and don't want to take the chance that one of them frequents ATOT, so I just keep mum about it.

 

[hjo3]

$7K/year? Sure. Studio apartments go for $300/month, assume another $200/month in utilities... eat 3 meals of the cheap ramen everyday, $23/month... some clothes, TP, internet access, another $100/month...

Works out to around $623/month or $7,476/year. I guess you could sell $476 worth of bodily fluids per year, right? Or participate in medical testing or something.

Sure, it's possible.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy
Could you live in the US for ~$7000 a year ? I ask this becuase this is what many overseas tech people make. I don't want this turning into a flame war, so I didn't post in P&N.

Of you course it depends on where you live.
Maybe you can if you
1. Keep housing expenses down to less than $100 a month,
2. Use mass transportation
3. Eat a lot of beans and rice
4. Buy second hand

 

[DanFungus]

not in santa barbara

 

[Goosemaster]

I used to work for the HEADSTART program, a federally funded pre-kindergarten program.

Concidering the type of people that we served (the poorest of the poor with children) $7000 was a lot.


Mean salary for a basic nuclear family hovered around 10k/year.

<---product of the program himself and turned out just fine....

 

[Jeff7181]

$7,000 a year is pretty damn low... I couldn't live on that cause while I'm not rich, I'm accustomed to some of the finer things in life, like my PC